1924

As I write, the holidays are just over, the students are gradually coming back to start classes again tomorrow. I am hoping the weather will stay sunny, even though it has been 10° below zero for a good many of the recent nights and mornings. To you Floridians - both permanent residents and transients - greetings from the North; how about some skiing? Speaking of which reminds me that Ken Davis, on a Christmas card, brings us up to date after his bad accident a year ago. Progress still slow, with one or perhaps two operations, but on the mend on crutches for four to five months more. And of skiers, RalphMiller Jr. is one of the best in the country, Olympics and all. He holds the world's speed record, made in Chile this past summer, of 109 miles an hour — not too far behind what his dad makes in his private plane.

Thanks to several who sent Christmas cards, including Ken and Ann Davis. I specially enjoy Joe Burleigh's mimeographed family letter summarizing the year; these seem to be increasing in popularity, and so I tried my hand at one after Christmas, when the house was quiet again after my daughter and grandson returned to Brooklyn.

Jerry Spaulding and Kae flew to Bermuda November 12, and found Chick Austin and his wife on the same plane. Spauldings were at Coral Beach Club, swimming and drinking in the sun (not sure how you mean that, Spud) for eight days; Austins at Belmont Manor, golfing, sailing, etc. Rough!

Ted Lamb is "exonerated by FCC examiner," says a headline in Editor if Publisher for December 10. The suspended license to operate his radio-TV station in Erie, Pa., is therefore renewable. A Toledo, Ohio, newspaper tells of his purchase of major interests in Seiberling Rubber Co. of Akron; also of his other radio-TV stations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, his publishing of the Erie (Pa.) Dispatch, and as being chairman of the Board of Air-Way Industries, which makes vacuum cleaners. The Wall Street Journal account of the Seiberling purchase could not say whether Lamb's possession of almost one fourth of the stock meant control.

Red Maloney was much photographed when he presented the George Bulger Lowe award to Charlie Sticka as New England's outstanding small college football player of 1955 (full-back at Trinity, undefeated for two years), at the Gridiron Club dinner in Boston early in December. Also newsworthy in the Boston area, Bob Morgan, brother-in-law of BobStrong, is chairman of the Wayland Finance Committee, and was written up in the Wayland (Mass.) Town Crier with the heading: "Bob Morgan - Once Head of Dartmouth Outing Club." There is an excellent summary, which I think deserves to be written into the record, resuming my policy of brief biographies from time to time, as information becomes available. Quoting the local paper, then:

After graduation Mr. Morgan went to Harvard Business School ... took six months off to go on an expedition to Mt. Logan, Alaska. ... He was one of the people who first interested Bradford Washburn in Alaska. ... After graduation from Harvard (he was assistant manager at Pecketts, at Sugar Hill, N. H.), he came to Boston in 1928. .. . Married in 1929 ... employed by First National (Bank) as a security analyst ... then as assistant cashier, and in 1934 (to the) Boston Five Cent Savings Bank as assistant treasurer (where he has subsequently been) trustee, vice president, and treasurer. Part of his job has been mortgages of all kinds.

At present Mr. Morgan is administrator for a purchasing pool for a group of banks (buying mortgages all over the country) and travels widely. During vacations, the Morgans have explored the West Indies, outer Bahama Islands, Venezuela and the Florida Keys. Recently they made a family trip West to visit the parks and spent some time at a dude ranch in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. ... He is a past president of the Appalachian Mountain Club, president of the Boston Real Estate Board; director of Merchants National Bank and of the Nevada-Massachusetts Co., a tungsten mining firm in Nevada. President Eisenhower appointed him to his Advisory Committee on Government Housing Policies and Programs ... serving also on other committees concerned with mortgage credit problems.

The Morgans have two children: Martha, who graduated from Middlebury last June, and Marshall, a senior at Noble and Greenough. Mrs. Morgan graduated from Simmons and followed, her professional work as a librarian in the Athenium. She is currently deep in interior decorating work.

As noted in the Class Letter, the FatherSon dinner in Hanover on February 18 is the big event for the Class this month. A report will appear in the March issue of these notes.

Secretary, 2 Brewster Rd., Hanover, N. H.

Treasurer, 29 Woodside Rd., Winchester, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,